Freecharge on WhatsApp

Every app is coming up with a new feature every day, but WhatsApp knows how to stay in the news for the right reasons. First the encryption and now Freecharge. Yes, the popular online payments service has introduced a new feature that lets users send or receive money right through WhatsApp.

Freecharge was acquired by Snapdeal and at $400 million it is among the most expensive acquisitions in the Indian startup ecosystem.

Now, you can transfer Freecharge credit to a friend or family. The payments service explained the process in a blog post, that the new 'Freecharge on WhatsApp' feature can be used to transfer money to any of a person's WhatsApp contacts.

All you need to know and do is go to the Freecharge menu on an Android phone and click on 'Freecharge on WhatsApp'. In order to allow Freecharge in accessibility settings, please click 'enable'. That is it, you are now all set to send money to anyone of your friends by simply typing the amount followed by FC (example: 100FC) in WhatsApp.

You just have to send the message and it will be credited to the person's Freecharge wallet.

However, the clarified that its 'Chat n Pay' feature is not affiliated to WhatsApp, which means it is only using the messaging service as a medium to let its users transfer money to each other.

One should also remember that feature is currently limited to Android users and the money transfers can only be done by and to Freecharge users.